Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

By Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | $35 This memoir by the daughter of iconic broadway composer richard rodgers—and a composer in her own right—is destined to become a classic for theater and movie fans. Throughout most of the latter half of the 20th century, mary had a front-row seat for backstage work of broadway, its habitués and sons of habitués. She shares these stories in a breezy, seemingly unedited style that makes Shy’s 460 pages fly by. ▸ Joe Westerfield, Publishing Editor